What Do You Need To Know?

In my online course, Intuition Retreat, there’s a forum for students to ask a question of the instructor, who happens to be me. And if I have an answer, I’ll offer it. If I don’t have an answer, I try to resist the tendency to act smart, and make something up. Instead, I just say, “I don’t know”. The interesting thing is that once I say “I don’t know”, information usually starts coming in, and soon I know something I didn’t know before.

Why does it work that way? I don’t know…

Maybe it’s because honesty sets up a vibration inside us that makes it easier to access higher consciousness, and pull in information from there. Or maybe my guardian angel hears me say, “I don’t know”, goes and gets the information for me, and drops it into my mind.

If you like the idea of pulling in new information, and you want to try this at home, I’d suggest doing it either in conversation with someone you feel comfortable with, or while you’re journaling. When something comes up that you’re wondering about, and you don’t seem to have an answer, just say “I don’t know”. Then just keep talking, or writing, and notice what comes through. You might surprise yourself.

So, back to my student’s question on the Intuition Retreat forum. Recently, a student asked me a technical question about the chakras. My immediate answer was, I don’t know, because frankly, although I looked into all this a long time ago, it’s not the kind of material I dwell upon and keep in my head.

To be quite honest, I like to keep as little in my head as possible, because I find that living in the intellect keeps me from being in my heart. And I like being in my heart much better. For me, my heart is where all the juicy good life stuff is, where all that happening-in-the-moment stuff is, where love is. Once I learned about being in my heart, I started caring a lot less about being in my head, and information became way less attractive.

Also in the head, all the jazz concerning fear, anger, sadness and that kind of stuff. Defense mechanisms, arguments, justifications, judgment, arrogance. All of that happens in the intellect and the ego. In my spiritual heart, none of that. So it’s a much nicer place to be.

Besides, I’ve discovered that when I need to know something, if I’ve got my heart open and things are flowing nicely, I can pretty much access whatever I need to know, when I need to know it. And of course, there’s always Google, which can help in a pinch.

Especially when it comes to spiritual things, I find that most information tends to be a sidetrack. Look at it this way. Which would you rather do, learn about all the different spiritual realms, read the chakras, and know the guardian of the seventh ray of Neptune, or feel love in your heart? Once your heart opens, and you’re in a nice steady flow of love from above, you tend to care a lot less about the details, at least in my experience.

But we do get hung up on knowing things. Why do you suppose there are there so many books about esoteric information, and so many classes about and trainings about learning all sorts of mystical stuff?

A few reasons. One is we’re bored, and that stuff can be entertaining for a while. Another is, we feel unloved, and knowing about special things can make us feel special for a while. And most importantly, it’s a distraction from a lot of unprocessed, uncomfortable feelings we have inside, that we’d like to avoid dealing with. For a while.

If we feel empty, unfulfilled, unhappy, unloved, and uncomfortable, we’ll look for any way we can find to feel better. That’s just human nature. Also human nature is to look for the fastest and easiest way to feel better. And the thing we have most readily available at our disposal, all the time, is our own intellect. We can go up into our head, get involved in thoughts, fantasies, stories, arguments, lessons, classes, books, and anything to engage that part of our brain, and we’ll be temporarily distracted from our discomfort. So, the intellect, and the path of knowledge, is a compelling avenue. We even get validation from society, because in our culture, we almost all agree that knowledge is a good thing.

But if you want to stop feeling pain, pretty much anything you do with your intellect is going to be at best a temporary band aid, and most certainly a side track. Sooner or later, you’ve got to come back to whatever it is inside that’s bothering you, keeping you feeling bored, uncomfortable and unloved.

The answer is not in the intellect, it’s in the emotions. Not to dwell there and wallow, but to get in touch with whatever it is that’s in the way, and release it. Anything else is a detour. For most of us, the emotions need some attention and healing, and then the real spirituality happens when we’re being honest, open, and willing to receive higher guidance and love from above.

So, when it comes to information, I like to avoid getting hung up on it. But, if you’re still wondering about the question my student asked, and what I told her? Here’s what I said, more or less. The chakras are energy centers that connect our bodies with universal energy or life force. The ones from the heart upward have to do with connecting to spiritual input, or higher guidance. The heart chakra is the crossover point, between all of our lower centers, which mostly have to do with earthly survival, and our higher centers, which have to do with our higher nature. Focus in the heart, and you can’t go wrong.

Want to learn more? All of my programs and courses are heavy on experiential learning, as opposed to intellectual stuff that would mostly just weigh you down. It’s all designed to help you relax, open to higher awareness, receive love from above, and let go of anything in the way. You can find Intuition Retreat, the program about developing your intuition and psychic ability, at intuitionretreat.com. And you can find the rest of my over 70 programs, guided meditations and courses, including Heart Meditations, Clearing Your Energy, Releasing Fear, and many more, at the The Healing Waterfall. Thanks for listening!

Kind Words

“I’ve been a client of Max Highstein’s for about 3 years. For about 4 decades before I met Max I did a lot of reading, seminars, and spiritual practices, all in an attempt to get back to being who I think I really am. But until I met Max, I didn’t really think I was getting anywhere.

Max has an incredible intuitive nature, and remarkable spiritual knowledge. Having a session with Max was like being with my best friend — someone who I know loved me, didn’t judge me, and always told me the truth.

Since seeing Max I now feel like I’m on the path to becoming my authentic self. So I highly suggest that if you have any life issues, or feel stuck in any way that you get in touch with Max and have a session. Thank you.”

Becoming My Authentic Self

“Thank you so very much for the session. A deep healing has taken place and things are beginning to flow again. ‘Toxic junk’ is disappearing and balance is being restored.”

Balance Restored

“Where I’m at in my life right now [student in medical school], I couldn’t have accomplished these things by myself. I needed help, and looked for somebody to help me — I didn’t know who… and you came there. You coming into my life changed my life. I can’t thank you enough for what you taught me.

“You taught me to forget about what’s going on in my head, and get into my heart. Just sit there and just feel. To get rid of negativity and the tapes that play in your mind, telling you things that are negative, and not true. I’m now able to get past that, and accept all those loving thoughts, those positive thoughts.

“It’s an awesome way to feel and an awesome way to live, when you’re no longer trapped by your own thoughts and your own misery. And I thank you, Max, every single day.”

No Longer Trapped by Negative Thoughts

“Today I had a session with max and it was incredible. It was so supportive and loving, and I feel much more like myself after the session. I feel grounded, I feel really expanded.

What Max told me in the session was very right on, very accurate for what I needed to hear at this time in my life, and during this transition that I’m going through in starting my own business. Max really got clearly and accurately what I needed to hear, and told me the things that are going to be essential for me and for my growth right now.

Max did some energy work for me at the end of the session, and it was really a great experience. It felt so loving… he just really knows what to do, and is very gifted and talented at what he does. And so I highly recommend Max for intuitive counseling and energy work.”

Client names are withheld for privacy.

Essential Information & Energy Work

“I so appreciated our session. The messages gave me such a sense of “yes”, which after stumbling in the dark for so long is pretty significant and affirming. Now I have movement and direction.”

Movement & Direction

“I’ve been to a lot of people and seemed to get nowhere. But you went right to the core issue I’m dealing with, and made it clear to me so I can work with it. Thank you so much!”

Core Issues

“I’ve known Max Highstein for several years now, and he has helped me immeasurably in my own emergence as a spiritual teacher, and as a person. He’s someone I feel I can call to address issues that are difficult for me to get to.

As a spiritual teacher, healer and facilitator myself, I know how important it is to keep myself expanding and keep myself releasing all that is old and no longer supporting me.

Max has a unique capacity for hooking me up with my guides, my angels, my support on high, and helping me get through these difficult issues that I’m facing. He really stays with me the whole time, and in his way of going deeper and deeper with me he allows me to open the book of my life in a way that helps me tremendously.

My gratitude to him for my life and my life and my work is immeasurable, and I’m glad to be doing this testimonial for him. Thank you.”

Client names are withheld for privacy.

Testimony From A Spiritual Teacher

I feel extremely fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with Max, from a professional level and obviously from a personal level.

Max has a unique and powerful way of helping me and teaching me how to get to the core of any issue. And what I mean by that is that he has taught me how to connect deeply with myself, with my heart.

So that the work we do is actually from the inside, going out. And what that allows for an incredibly empowering position for me, because then regardless of whatever circumstances come up, I’m able to work through it and connect with my heart. And for that I’m extremely grateful.

Heart Centered Empowerment

“I’ve been working with Max for about 6 months now, and I came to Santa Fe from Canada around that time period.

Max was someone who was able to help me with both mundane problems and greater spiritual questions that I have. For example, after I moved into my place, there was an armed robbery about a block away from me, and Max was able to help me deal with the fear and the anger and confusion about that; and reframe it in a way that was less emotional and help me move on from that experience.

Max has also been able to help me move away from constant intellectualizing and get more in touch with my body and specifically my heart, and that has open up paths to my intuition that I wasn’t even aware of.

And finally, since Max is a spiritual based counselor, I’m able to concentrate more on some of the bigger questions I have about life and he’s helped me move away from some of the sad, ancient stories of my life into a more positive energy.”

Mundane Problems to Big Spiritual Questions

“I can’t tell you how grateful I am. You tuned right into the issues I’m confronting. Some of what you delivered was practical… Some of it was deeply energetic. I feel lighter than air!”

Lighter than air

“I want to thank you for being an extraordinary teacher and healer in what has been the most unusual journey of my life. Honestly, I am quite certain I would not have made the strides toward true inner peace that I have, without your wise and compassionate help.”